Luxembourg-based TV giant RTL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with India’s Reliance Broadcast. The plan is to form a Joint Venture to launch entertainment channels in India. Reliance already has a similar deal in place with US-based CBS Studios which resulted in three planned channels, one of which (BIG-CBS Prime) is already on air. […]
Netflix, the US mail-order and online movie-rental service, doesn’t view Warner Bros’ plan to offer $3 film rentals on Facebook as a greater threat than other rivals pose, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos has said. “Nobody goes to Facebook to watch movies,” Sarandos said in an interview at a film finance conference in Los Angeles. […]
Revenues from Over-the-top TV services are set for years of strong growth, according to the latest report by ITMedia Consulting. In its ‘Next Generation Television’ report, the Rome-based consultancy predicts a 110 per cent growth per year by 2014 throughout Western Europe, including Italy. At the end of 2011, revenues of the entire sector amounted […]
‘Media Piracy in Emerging Economies’ a large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia, tells two overarching stories: one tracing the explosive growth of piracy as digital technologies became cheap and ubiquitous around the world, and another following the growth […]
On March 29th, Sanyo Electric’s stock listing will vanish from the world’s trading bourses. Two days later, on April 1st its business will be formally rolled into a new Japanese giant electronics company: Panasonic Corp. Panasonic Corp is also using the opportunity fully to absorb its own sister company Panasonic Electric Works into the parent. […]
VDS, developer of broadcast automation software, content design and plug-in products, has introduced its first automated social media tool for television, called Watercooler. With Watercooler, broadcasters can engage viewers and create additional revenue opportunities. Watercooler incorporates exact timing information from station automation, enabling synchronised tweets or Facebook posts throughout the broadcast, engaging viewers with programme […]
MBC bouquet of a dozen channels went off air on Tuesday evening, including its all-important Al Arabiya news channel. As at Thursday March 10th they were still off air as far as their normal frequencies are concerned, although they are now retransmitting over the region with new frequencies. It would seem the jamming is coming […]
At the end of 2010, pay-TV, either via cable or satellite, grew 15.2 per cent (333,000) over the year in Venezuela and reached a total of 2.52 million homes. Some 37 per cent of all Venezuelan homes now subscribe to pay-TV. The subscriber base grew from 2,192,519 in December 2009 to 2,526,050 in 2010. In […]
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) is set to draw up an Industry Copyright Code to clarify the role of ISPs should they be accused of content piracy online. The move comes after the Full Bench of the Federal Court dismissed AFACT’s appeal of its copyright case against Perth-based ISP, iiNet. While it was another victory […]
Two of the largest radio station operators in the US are to combine, with Cumulus Media agreeing to buy Citadel Broadcasting for $2.5 billion. The deal will bring together almost 600 radio stations in 120 markets across the country, giving Cumulus a presence in eight of the top 10 markets. Cumulus chief executive Lew Dickey […]